Dochtersions: Hello everybody! Under the name "dochtersions" I started, at the suggestion of my dear husband, in sharing my photos, fractals, and also some paintings, and other 2D art here at Renderosity. That was in January of 2010. I still use my two owls as avatar, which is a reduced image of one of my oil paintings.
The name "dochtersions" came into my head as only one, when I was looking for a name for my blog that I started in 2007.
This name is not that strange, as I know that God is my real father and mother at the same time, and I know that God loves me more and deeper than a man can aware of (or at least I think this way)
I live in the South of The Netherlands together with my retired husband. I've had various occupations. In my last job, I was working as an assistant to a paediatrician and a rehabilitation specialist. When I had children, I graduated "health awareness", and gave lectures on various topics, plus vegetarian cooking classes to teenagers.
My husband and I have together two daughters and four grandchildren. Which all live abroad, to be precise in Lacey (WA-USA) and Davos in Switzerland.
I've always been busy with all kinds of creativity. As a child I drew a lot, later pottery, needle art, tapestries, weaving, batik art, macramé, etc. Painting with oil was my last great hobby.
Around about the year 2000 I started having unexplained physical symptoms as well as insomnia, which was later diagnosed as having PTSD. It turned out that I had repressed a traumatized youth. However, the physical symptoms made that I no longer could be busy with my passions, the real painting, and other activities (f.e. reading books, gardening, travelling), which I was doing without a limit.
What I can stay doing well in limited form, is playing music on my mandolin and my guitar, and also to enjoy/listen my favourite music, which is including the cantatas of J.S. Bach and his sons , f.e. also music from G.F. Handel, G.Ph. Telemann, a.s.o. This is also the kind of music that my husband (on its church organ) and I (on my mandolin) play together.
After being diagnosed with PTSD a lot changed and I was forced to look for alternatives in which I could express myself. That is, that for years I started writing, and poetry, which go quite intense and as a sort of automatic. Unfortunately, my knowledge of the English language is not sufficient enough, so I write in my mother tongue, with sometimes a few exceptions. The thoughts come to my mind right at unexpected moments, and it’s wonderful, to surrendering to your train of thoughts.
In the encounter more and more of impossibilities, in connection with, f.e continuous pains, I learned to shift my gaze. Searching for distractions and alternatives, I learned to focus my happy mind on all the wonderful and admirable little things in the world around me.
My husband since 1968 Karel (kareldg on RR) bought a small pocket camera for me, and taught me to work with Fractal Explorer. Through my little Sony camera I learned to look differently, to see deeper; to see the details, the structure, how refined, and just so unique the small ones are in God's creation.
What is one of my daily tasks is trying to support people who suffer from PTSD, but they suffer more in an emotional way, and I can understand them and listen to their story (digital) they trust me.
Renderosity: What projects are you currently working on?
Dochtersions: Of course I would love to take more concrete technical knowledge to me (to acquire), and follow tutorials, how to work with Ultra Fractal, Mandelbulb, etc.. The capabilities of PSP investigate and experiment with it.
The manual of my current camera (Canon PowerShot SX50HS, and as pocket camera Panasonic DMC-TZ35, since 2020 I use a Canon PowerShot SX70HS). I would like to sift through, and experiment with it. But exactly that kind of things, such as reading comprehension, concentration, makes this especially, by the constant dominating intense facial pain, really impossible.
All in all, I continue to look for improvement, while in the meantime trying to be light-hearted, happy and hopeful, to be open to everything that's coming my way. I enjoy art, stay in the nature, the outer man/woman in me, the love that I've been given, to realize this, and to be thankful for. Wherever I am happy with is that I am able to meet so many lovely people through RR. Unfortunately, only digital, but I'm also grateful.
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Comments (15)
beachsidelegs
Wonderful image :)
kgb224
Superb capture and birthday dedication Mies. Happy birthday Andrea. God bless.
durleybeachbum
You have caught me not looking my best ! Thankyou <mies.
Glendaw
What a fun and interesting pair of scarecrows !
Hopefully they will keep the nusiances away.
Magnificent postwork and presentation, well done Mies.
Happy Birthday Andrea !
jmb007
amusant
RodS
A most beautiful dedication for Andrea!
rhol_figament
Always enjoy it when the garden people come for a visit, lol. Great looking image...
auntietk
What fun this is! :D
helanker
WOW! I didnt mind having such in my garden to scare away the deers :-) Awesome and very original dedi for our friend :-)
curveemark
you nique
VDH
Originele foto bewerking !
anahata.c
You've postworked the 2 scarecrows with more of your undulating hues and textures. These are clearly scarecrows, but you've played with the colors so that they 'melt' all over themselves, and flow. The shirts, vests and jackets of these scarecrows look like someone painted oil paint all over them, or someone drew on them with crayons. It's very primal, once more. And the plants in front of the scarecrows, as well as directly behind the scarecrows, are also infused with your organic energies and flows. The background is more 'photography', and the contrast between the background and foreground is stunning: You've made a photograph and a very manipulated photograph live easily with each other, side by side.
A beautiful complex image for Andrea, and a very devoted dedi. Happy Birthday once again, Andrea! And many more! (I don't think Andrea will see this, lol---I'm too late! But I'll wish her a great birthday anyway, just in case...) And this is a beautiful dedi, Jacomina. I hope you are doing well. I realize I owe you a letter---I apologize for letting it go this long. I'll get in touch with you this summer. But I wish you a wonderful rest of June...same to Karel too...and may you always be with light even when struggle is holding your other hand...
farmerC
Schitterend gedaan Mies.
Richardphotos
so many details to explore
wscottart Online Now!
Absolutely fascinating, I am unable to pin point what I love about this, but it is just so vibrant and clean and lyrical. A rare masterpiece.